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Naomi (Mia) Dreyer ('07) receives Fulbright Teaching Assistantship
05/10/2008
German Studies alumna Mia Dreyer ('07) has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Germany. This brings to four the number of Fulbright TAs awarded to W&M German Studies students this year. Congratulations Mia!

    Kasey Hutson receives Fulbright Teaching Assistantship
    04/24/2008
    German Studies major and senior Kasey Hutson has received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Austria for 2008-2009. Kasey has been assigned to Linz, and will be teaching upper-level students English, most likely at a Gymnasium.

    Carolyn Osinski receives Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Vienna
    04/23/2008
    German Studies senior Carolyn Osinski has received and accepted a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Austria for the year 2008-2009.

    German Senior Olivia Lucas wins Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Germany
    04/23/2008
    German Studies and Music major Olivia Lucas has received a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Germany for 2008-2009.

    Professor Geoff Eley
    03/28/2007
    Professor Geoff Eley, Chair of the German Studies Department at the University of Michigan, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of History, gave a seminar on Wednesday, March 28th "Rethinking German Modernities: What Comes After the Sonderweg?" and a lecture "Empire by Land or Sea? Germany's Imperial Imaginary, 1871-1945." Professor Eley has published widely in German history of the 19th and 20th centuries, including books on the German Right between Bismarck and the 1920s, and the idea of the Sonderweg in German history, as well as essays on a wide range of subjects. His recent books include: A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2002)

      Bruce Campbell organizes panel and delivers paper at the GSA
      10/05/2006
      German Studies Professor Bruce Campbell organized a panel and delivered a paper on Detective Fiction at the German Studies Association meeting.

      German Studies Student Lenore Cebulski Receives DAAD Scholarship
      05/10/2006
      German Studies Student Lenore Cebulski has received a DAAD scholarship for 2006-2007 to study in Munich. Lenore will be studying at the Ludwig Maximillian Universitaet 2006-2007, and the monthly stipend from the DAAD will assist Lenore with room and board for the ten months she will be in Munich.

        German Student Melissa Edwards Receives DAAD Summer Stipend for Study in Germany
        04/15/2006
        Melissa Edwards, a student of German Studies and Linguistics, has received a DAAD Summer Grant to pursue rsearch on historical linguistics at the Universitaet Potsdam.

        Leventhal delivers invited talk at Psychiatrie AG, Institute for the History of Medicine, Berlin
        04/08/2006
        Rob Leventhal, Assistant Professor of German, delivered a talk at the conference "Qualitative Evaluation of Case Documents" at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Charite, Humboldt University, Berlin

        German Student Olivia Lucas awarded Monroe Scholarship
        10/19/2005
        German Student Olivia Lucas has been awarded a Monroe Scholarship for the Summer of 2006.

        Rob Leventhal gives lecture at the Universitaet Potsdam
        09/22/2005
        Rob Leventhal was invited to lecture at the Germanistisches Institut at the University of Potsdam in Germany June 24, 2005

        German and History Student awarded Fulbright
        04/21/2005
        Kate Pierce-McManamon recently completed and defended her Honors Thesis in History and German on the debates surrounding the reconstruction of the Frauenkriche in Dresden, Germany, and how these debates reflect broader issues of the construction of memory and identity. Kate has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for 2005-2006 to continue her work on this project.

        Campbell elected to PBK
        04/16/2005
        Associate Professor of German Bruce Campbell was chosen the faculty inductee for 2005 by the local chapter of Phi Betta Kappa.

        Rob Leventhal gives lecture and leads seminar at the University of Copenhagen
        04/14/2005
        "Filologi og hermeneutik: Den romantiske arv"--"Philology and Hermeneutics: The Romantic Legacy". Assistant Professor of German Studies Rob Leventhal was invited by the Georg Brandes Institute, The Faculty of Philology at the University of Copenhagen to give a lecture and conduct a seminar on Friedrich Schlegel's early work on Philology and Hermeneutics.